IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    remove limitations in workfile database which leedsto outages

    When a workfile is created Db2 increments obid, when a workfile ist dropped the obid is not released by Db2. There is a restriction of maximum 500 workfiles. When the limit has been reached, no more work files can be created, SQL code -497 is retu...
    almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

    REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

    Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
    over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Improved LATCH when index splitting

    [Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Match Correlation ID from DIS THREAD with DIS ARCHIVE

    We had a problem with a CDC tool because it was reading/requesting Archlogs.With DIS ARCHIVE we could easily identify that it was the CDC tool. With DIS THREAD you could see that there are many different processes coming from that tool.Now you nee...
    11 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Add commit frequency to Modify Recovery utility

    If there a numerous rows in SYSCOPY to be modified out the modify job holds locks on SYSCOPY for an extended period of time and can cause timeouts for other processes and utilities that are using SYSCOPY
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Compress statement text before insert in Dynamic Statement Cache

    GGDB212006 'Compress' statement text of dynamic SQL statements by removing all unnecessary blanks before inserting in DSC. As a consequence statements have to be 'compressed' before comparing it to statements in DSC
    almost 14 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Dynamic Plan Stability - Option to restabilize an invalidated query missing

    We've got several SQL queries stabilized with dynamic plan stability. Reason is to prevent them from getting a bad accesspath. After operations like "ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE PARTITION..." the query is flagged to valid N in SYSIBM.SYSDYNQRY. Than we...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

    Expand IFCID 258 to include the last available partition (based on MAXPARTITIONS) of a partitioned table spaces.

    IBM already produces IFCID 258 when an extent is taken. Would IBM may consider the expansion into the last available partition to be a noteworthy event or either inform the MAXPARTITION value. So, the percentage of available partitions can be calc...
    about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    Violation of referential integrity - enrich the inaccurate messagetext DSNT408I for sqlcode -530 with parent <> child information

    If the insert in a child table is not successful because the foreign key value does not match with a primary key value for a given relationship DB2 sends DSNT408I. Looking into this messagetext you will find only the name of the relationship. That...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

    Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.00.00.000000'. However, using this value can lead to various problems which are recognized by DB2 development already as during introduction of temporal table...
    over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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